The
Internet Archive, founded by
Brewster Kahle in
1996, is dedicated to maintaining an
archive[?] of the
Internet. Their collections include
snapshots of the
World Wide Web and
Usenet.
The Archive also maintains "The Wayback Machine" which, given a URL, allows the user to see versions of the corresponding web page over time. Examples of the Wayback Machine's archives:
- Amazon (http://web.archive.org/web/%2A/www.amazon.com),
- Microsoft (http://web.archive.org/web/%2A/www.microsoft.com) and the
- BBC (http://web.archive.org/web/%2A/news.bbc.co.uk).
The Archive's total collection, as of 2003, is around 100 terabytes of data.